Recipe: Perfect Simmered Sardines and Umeboshi

Simmered Sardines and Umeboshi.

You can cook Simmered Sardines and Umeboshi using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simmered Sardines and Umeboshi

1. It's 6 of Sardines.
2. You need 50 ml of Sake ★.
3. Prepare 80 ml of Mirin ★.
4. Prepare 120 ml of Water ★.
5. You need 80 ml of Soy sauce ★.
6. It's 2 1/2 tbsp of Sugar ★.
7. You need 20 grams of Ginger ★.
8. You need 3 large of Umeboshi.

Simmered Sardines and Umeboshi instructions

1. Cut off the heads and the tails from the sardines. Cut in half, remove the innards, and rinse them..
2. Add the ★ flavouring ingredients into a pot, and bring to a boil. Please adjust the taste to your liking at this point. Since the umeboshi will be added later, I made it a little bit sweet..
3. Bring Step 2 to a boil, arrange the sardines, and add the umeboshi flesh without pits..
4. Put a small lid that sits right on top of the food (otoshibuta), and simmer for about 15-20 minutes over medium heat, then turn off the heat. Letting it cool down, and heating it up again makes the sardines absorb the flavours better..
5. Heat it up before eating..